I've been occupied with other stuff than music listening for a few years
and my LMS setup has been stuck at LMS 7.8. This weekend I spent some
time to setup a new installation of LMS using latest 8.2 release and
realised that the genres in my library looks like a mess. It's a long
history and I have a couple of different problems. Parts of the history
is that when my wife and I joined our music library the focus was to
just rip all her CDs the easiest way to get her music accessible via the
Squeezebox players. I did the ripping using Vortexbox with no manual
genre editing afterwards. Another part is that today I've more or less
stopped buying new CD's, all new music comes from streaming services or
electronic purchases today where I've less possibilities to manage this
through tags.
With the new possibilities with LMS 8.x it feels like there must be a
way to clean this up.
What I'd like is to be able to categorise the music (both local and from
streaming services (mainly Spotify)) via a smart phone/tablet.
Changing tags is unlikely to work it also needs to work for content from
streaming services now when these are integrated with the LMS library.
I'd like to do it via a smart phone/tablet because that would make it
possible to work on the categorisation even when I'm not in front of a
computer. The computer keyboard have a bit too many keys that are
tempting to push for my two year old child, so it would be a lot easier
to do it via a smart phone/tablet.
Feels like playlists together with virtual libraries might be a way to
do it. I guess I'd have to create a small plugin that makes it possible
to create a virtual library based on a selected playlist unless there is
a way to do that with standard LMS ? Didn't find any possibilities to do
a search limited to a playlist but I might be missing something.
The only thing I'm a bit scared of is that the playlist management
functions in LMS makes it a bit too easy to accidentally destroy/replace
contents of a playlist, but maybe the Playlist Manager plugin would be a
solution if it supports adding tracks from streaming services to a
playlist.
Is there a better way to handle this that I'm missing ?
Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info))
Developer of 'many plugins/applets'
(https://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User_Erland.html)
*Starting with LMS 8.0 I no longer support my plugins/applets* ('see
here for more information'
(https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?49483-Announce-New-versions-of-erlands-plugins&p=998836&viewfull=1#post998836)
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